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MoRSAIK: Sequence Motif Reactor Simulation, Analysis and Inference Kit in Python
Johannes Harth-Kitzerow, Ulrich Gerland, Torsten A. Enßlin
Origins of life research investigates how life could emerge from prebiotic chemistry only. One possible explanation provides the RNA world hypothesis. It states that life could eme…
Mechanics and wrinkling patterns of pressurized bent tubes
Cesar L. Pastrana, Luyi Qiu, John W. Hutchinson +2
Take a drinking straw and bend it from its ends. After sufficient bending, the tube buckles forming a kink, where the curvature is localized in a very small area. This instability,…
Emergence of homochirality via template-directed ligation in an RNA reactor
Gabin Laurent, Tobias Göppel, David Lacoste +1
RNA in extant biological systems is homochiral; it consists exclusively of D-ribonucleotides rather than L-ribonucleotides. How the homochirality of RNA emerged is not known. Here,…
Robust boundary formation in a morphogen gradient via cell-cell signaling
Mareike Bojer, Stephan Kremser, Ulrich Gerland
Establishing sharp and correctly positioned boundaries in spatial gene expression patterns is a central task, both in developmental and synthetic biology. We consider situations wh…
Pressure-induced Shape-shifting of Helical Bacteria
Cesar L. Pastrana, Luyi Qiu, Shahaf Armon +2
Many bacterial species are helical in form, including the widespread pathogen H. pylori. Motivated by recent experiments on H. pylori showing that cell wall synthesis is not unifor…
Emergence of colloidal patterns in AC electrical fields
Florian Katzmeier, Bernhard Altaner, Jonathan List +2
Suspended microparticles subjected to AC electrical fields collectively organize into band patterns perpendicular to the field direction. The bands further develop into zigzag shap…